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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2009
Matthew P. Ebrom, Holland, MI (US);
Mark E. Glotzbach, Granger, IN (US);
Richard A. Mccoy, Stevensville, MI (US);
Brian N. Radford, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Matthew P. Ebrom, Holland, MI (US);
Mark E. Glotzbach, Granger, IN (US);
Richard A. McCoy, Stevensville, MI (US);
Brian N. Radford, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
An appliance includes one or more control boards having control software to control a cycle of operation, access to memory, a graphical user interface in communication with the control boards for allowing a user to observe and interact with the appliance regarding the cycle of operation, and a software framework in communication with the graphical user interface and the memory access. The software framework has animation definitions and access to builder content containing instance information with which it can create at least one instance of a user interface control and can associate one or more animation definitions with memory information associated with at least two locations in the memory. With this structure, the software framework dynamically renders animation in the graphical user interface at runtime using the animation definitions, and the rendering of the graphical user interface is dynamically affected by association of the animation definitions and the memory information.